Billionaire candy heiress kills woman in crash

Co-owner of Mars company behind wheel in wrong-way car wreck

Published: 10/09/2013 at 12:48 PM

(LONDON DAILY MAIL) Jacqueline Badger Mars, the 73-year-old heiress of the Mars candy empire, has been involved in a car crash in Virginia that killed an 86-year-old grandmother from Texas, according to authorities.

Miss Mars, one of the richest people in the world with a net worth estimated at $20.5billion, was driving her 2004 Porsche SUV in Loudoun County Friday when she allegedly crossed the median on Route 50 and slammed into a 2013 Chrysler minivan.

A backseat passenger of the vehicle, identified as 86-year-old Irene Ellisor, of Huntsville, Texas, was pronounced dead at the scene.